Rape victim, 74, was left ‘broken’
Anthony Hussey, 24, will be sentenced next month. He was wearing a balaclava and dressed in dark clothing when the woman found him in her bedroom. He told her that his boss was making him do it and that he didn’t want money.
“It’s just one thing and you are going to like it,” Hussey said before he told the woman there were three more men outside.
She screamed and struggled with him but he pushed her to the floor and placed his hands over her mouth. He bent the woman over her bed, removed her trousers and underwear and sexually assaulted her. He then raped her both vaginally and anally.
Afterwards he said “you enjoyed that didn’t you?” He covered her whole body with a duvet and left.
Hussey of Ardshillane, Sneem, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape and anal rape at the woman’s home on September 20, 2014.
Sergeant Michael Quirke told Tom Creed SC, prosecuting that Hussey had been at the woman’s house earlier that morning. She had woken to loud knocking and banging on the doors and windows of her house.
He claimed he had gone there by mistake having been drinking heavily through the night and went home. He then returned, broke into her house and raped her. She called the emergency services to report the rape just before 8am.
He was a bar manager at the time and has never come to Garda attention before or since. He was registered as a sex offender when he entered his plea last March.
The woman read her victim impact statement. She said after the rape she was sobbing uncontrollably like a small child, “broken, terrorised, waiting for my death”.
“This phantom out of the darkness, standing in front of me demanding sex. I had no option but to fight. I was too weak or clumsy to defend myself, which seemed to amuse him. He started mocking me. When I pulled at his balaclava he said “ah you want to see my face now”.
“The belittling comments continued. He threatened me with a gang outside... I knew I had no chance of winning his game.
“How can he behave with such brutality? A woman three times his age. He could be my grandson.”
She said it was more than a year and a half since the rape and she felt “ashamed, naked, raw and so old, disgusted, betrayed and humiliated. There are not enough words”.
“I can’t stop screaming inside. My heart is bleeding with shock... I feel ripped open, stood naked to the core of my being, reduced to nothing. I feel so hollowed out. I feel so small, having been reduced to a puppet like from a Punch and Judy show,” the woman continued. She added she felt “gutted in the truest sense of the word”.
She spoke of a hill near her home that she used to walk up but could no longer do so without company.
“The day will come when I walk to the top of my hill, stand tall, lift up my arms to the sky and scream, scream for all those children and women who have been abused and who can’t cry out in despair, those who had to suffer in silence.”
Hussey was remanded in custody until June 7 for sentence.
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